Fatwa ID: 08097
Answered by: Maulana Nuski Cassim
Question:
Assalamu Alaikum, if my hands are impure and let’s say they’re sweaty or moist, if I touch cream that I use to cream my face, would the cream I touch become impure, and would it transfer around my face? What if the cream didn’t change its taste, smell, or color, would it still be considered impure although it touched something moist or wet?
Jazak Allah Khair
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Answer:
Wa’alaykum al-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu,
If your hands became ritually impure (shar’an) due to either touching something impure or impurity somehow coming into contact with your hands, then yes, using your hands in this state to take out cream and apply it to your face would cause the impurity to spread or transfer onto your face.[1]
Moreover, there is certainty regarding your hands being impure along with them being sweaty/moist. Therefore, whether the cream didn’t change its taste, smell, or color, it is certain that impurity has mixed with the cream that you touched to apply to your face—the sum total of all of this being the transfer of impurity.[2]
بارك الله فيك
May Allah bless you.
Only Allah knows best.
Written by Maulana Nuski Cassim
Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah
Darul Ifta Birmingham
[1] قال:(فإن كان لها عين مرئية فطهارتها زوالها) لأن الحكم بالنجاسة بقيام عينها فينعدم بروالها
[Al-Ikhtiyar li Ta’lil al-Mukhtar, Kitab at-Taharah, page 47, Dar al-Ma’rifah]
(He said: If it [the impurity] has a visible substance, then its purification is its removal, because the ruling of impurity is based on the existence of its substance, so it ceases with its removal.)
ويجوز تطهيرها ش: أي تطهير النجاسة، وقد ذكرنا أن المراد به إما المحل أو الإزالة
(And its purification is permissible, meaning the purification of the impurity, and we have mentioned that what is meant by it is either the place [affected] or the removal [of the impurity].)
[البناية شرح الهداية، حكم تطهير النجاسة، ج. ١، صفحة ٧٠٣، دار الكتب العلمية]
الاصل المعقود إن اليقين لا يزول بالشك
[بدائع الصنائع، كتاب الطهارة، ج. ١، صفحة ٧٣، دار الكتب العلمية]
